# Head of Digital Delivery & Governance

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

The Head of Digital Delivery & Governance leads programme delivery for McLaren's digital initiatives.

As McLaren builds a direct, lifelong relationship with clients, its digital portfolio is growing fast in scale and ambition.

The role sits within Commercial Technology & AI Enablement and reports to its Director.

### Responsibilities

- Programme Leadership: Lead the planning and execution of McLaren's digital programmes, from investment approval through to launch, adoption and handover into support.

- Team Leadership: Lead, develop and deploy a team of project leads across the portfolio.

- Cross Team Coordination: Act as the central point of coordination between product, experience, engineering and platform teams, the wider business and delivery partners.

- Ways of Working: Establish one consistent way of working across delivery teams.

- Business Partnering and Demand Management: Lead business partnering and provide a single point of entry for the business.

- Delivery Governance: Define and run governance matched to the size and risk of each initiative.

- Release and Business Readiness: Partner with engineering on release planning, and own business readiness for every release.

- Delivery Partner Management: Hold delivery partners to their commercial and delivery commitments.

- Financial Management: Own the digital programme budget and forecast.

- Assurance and Reporting: Set clear go live criteria for data protection, security and compliance.

- Continuous Improvement: Measure and improve delivery predictability, cycle time and quality.

### Requirements

- Substantial experience leading delivery of multi-team, multi-partner digital portfolios at scale.

- A proven record of designing and running a delivery operating model and proportionate governance in a product-led organisation.

- Experience leading and developing project leads and programme managers.

- Command of agile at scale and hybrid delivery.

- Strong financial management: budget ownership, forecasting, business cases and benefits tracking.

- Experience with portfolio and work management tools such as Jira and Confluence.

### What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday

- Enhanced company pension scheme

- Discretionary annual bonus award

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Life assurance benefit

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service

- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

- Generous parental leave policies

- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- agile
- budget management
- financial forecasting
- Jira
- Confluence
- digital delivery
- governance
- programme management

### Nice to have
- CRM
- retail platforms

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